**I received 3 bottle of Ito En Teas Tea in order to complete this post. No other compensation has been received**
I’ve had the pleasure of reviewing Ito En Tea’s Tea in the past. It’s all natural tea that comes in many different flavors and varieties. Tea’s Tea uses the best green tea leaves. As I’ve mentioned before in previous reviews, this is some of the cleanest, smoothest tasting teas I’ve every tried.
Now Ito En Tea’s Tea is even greener than before. They’ve redesigned their bottles to reduce the carbon footprint by making it the lightest bottle available in ready to drink teas. It weighs only 18.7 grams compared to 24 grams that most other bottles weigh. Not only does the reduction in weight reduce the carbon footprint with the PET 1 plastic but it’s also reduces fuel expenses for transportation. This change has been made on all the bottles including the half sweetened flavors that my kids love.
This is my youngest son drinking the Ito En Tea’s Tea Half and Half lemon flavor. I had hoped to get a sip so I could try it but he enjoyed it so much he drank the whole thing. No kidding. My guess is, it was good lol.
No worries though, I was able to drink the Tea’s Tea unsweetened Jasmine Tea. I’ve had the pleasure of tying this one before. It has a little bit more, “grown up” taste so the kids tend to let me have this one. I really like it though. When you open the bottle you get a lovely mix of a fresh Jasmine and green tea scent. The flavor is so clean and crisp. I love sipping on this while I work.
My oldest son tried the Tea’s Tea unsweetened green and white tea. Something I learned about this tea, white tea is one of the rarest teas in the world. It is also the least processed form of tea in India and China. It’s rare because young tea leaf buds (not tea leaves) so they are handpicked.
Something else I think is very cool. Ito En had estimated it was producing 42,000 tons of used tea leaves in 2013 while making it’s delicious tea. While a lot of it was already being used for natural fertilizer and in animal feed, they wanted to find more ways to reuse the used tea leaves. Working with other companies they found a way to use used teal leaves as a construction material! Some of the items they were able to make with used tea leaves include:
–boards for making tatami mats (Japanese floor mats)
–environmental synthetic resin which is used in a lot of things like ball point pens, park benches, even ecofriendly vending machines!
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Jasmine tea sounds delicious! And I’m really impressed by the company’s attempts to use the used tea leaves. That’s some true recycling!